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M 1.9ml

33 km E of Big Pine, California

· 6.7 km deep · released about 21 lb of TNT

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10 km30 km60 km120 km N Esmeralda County 68 kmInyo County 85 kmMono County 115 km
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When
Magnitude
M 1.9 (ml)
Depth
6.7 km below the surface
Felt
2 reports · strongest reported intensity III
Nearest
Esmeralda County, 68 km NNE
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 3056 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 2 people have reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 21 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.9 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 710,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 500,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 45× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.9 about 21 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 37.2095, -117.9169. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Esmeralda County, NV 68 km (42 mi) SSW of here earthquakes near Esmeralda County
Inyo County, CA 85 km (53 mi) NNW of here earthquakes near Inyo County
Mono County, CA 115 km (72 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Mono County
Tulare County, CA 134 km (83 mi) NE of here earthquakes near Tulare County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

47 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 2.3 39km ESE of Big Pine, CA
  2. 2.1 27 km SSE of Silver Peak, Nevada
  3. 1.7 7km SSW of Wilkerson, CA
  4. 1.6 28 km E of Big Pine, California
  5. 1.8 6km E of Big Pine, CA
  6. 2.4 60km ENE of Big Pine, CA
  7. 1.8 52km NW of Stovepipe Wells, CA
  8. 1.8 54 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  9. 2.2 1km SSE of Wilkerson, CA
  10. 1.6 54km E of Big Pine, CA
  11. 1.6 5km N of Wilkerson, CA
  12. 1.7 55 km E of Big Pine, California
  13. 1.5 6km SE of Deep Springs, CA
  14. 1.6 48 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada
  15. 1.7 48 km S of Silver Peak, Nevada

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.8 on 2016-02-16 — it released about 20,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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